[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 189 (Thursday, December 19, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7220-S7221]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
AMENDING THE DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE PRESERVATION ACT OF 1992 TO
ADJUST THE BOUNDARY OF THE DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL
PARK
The bill (S. 2784) to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation
Act of 1992 to adjust the boundary of the Dayton Aviation Heritage
National Historical Park, and for other purposes, which had been
reported from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources with an
amendment, as follows:
(The part of the bill intended to be stricken is in boldfaced
brackets and the part of the bill intended to be inserted is in
italic.)
SECTION 1. DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
Section 101 of the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation
Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 410ww) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
``(d) Boundary Adjustment.--In addition to the sites
described in subsections (b) and (c), the boundary of the
park is adjusted to include approximately 1 acre of land in
Dayton, Ohio, depicted as `Proposed Addition' on the map
entitled `Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Proposed Boundary Addition' [and dated February 2023],
numbered 362/193,730, and dated June 2024.''.
=========================== NOTE ===========================
On page S7220, December 19, 2024, the second column, the following
appears: ``(d) Boundary Adjustment.--In addition to the sites described
in subsections (b) and (c), the boundary of the park is adjusted to
include approximately 1 acre of land in Dayton, Ohio, depicted as
`Proposed Addition' on the map entitled `Dayton Aviation Heritage
National Historical Park Proposed Boundary Addition' [and dated
February 2023], numbered 362/193,730, and dated June 2024.''.
The online Record has been corrected to read: ``(d) Boundary
Adjustment.--In addition to the sites described in subsections (b) and
(c), the boundary of the park is adjusted to include approximately 1
acre of land in Dayton, Ohio, depicted as `Proposed Addition' on the
map entitled `Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Proposed Boundary Addition' [and dated February 2023], numbered 362/
193,730, and dated June 2024.''.
========================= END NOTE =========================
The committee-reported amendment was agreed to.
The bill (S. 2784), as amended, was ordered to be engrossed for a
third reading, read the third time, and passed as follows:
S. 2784
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
Section 101 of the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act
of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 410ww) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(d) Boundary Adjustment.--In addition to the sites
described in subsections (b) and (c), the boundary of the
park is adjusted to include approximately 1 acre of land in
Dayton, Ohio, depicted as `Proposed Addition' on the map
entitled `Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Proposed Boundary Addition', numbered 362/193,730, and dated
June 2024.''.
Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I am really glad to see we can pass
eight bills by unanimous consent here. I want to thank my colleague
from California Senator Padilla, my colleague from Oregon Senator
Merkley, and my colleague from Ohio Senator Brown for helping to work
to develop these pairs and to move them forward.
I also want to acknowledge the cloakroom teams--thank you very much;
we appreciate that--as well as the ranking member and the chairman of
the Energy and Natural Resources Committee--Chairman Manchin and
Ranking Member Barrasso--and their committee for their assistance.
We have now passed a total of five Alaska lands-related bills in the
past couple days. Just last night, my friend Senator Hirono graciously
offered a pair that included my legislation to sunset an outdated
requirement in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for Native
village corporations to help convey lands to the State of Alaska to be
held in trust for municipal uses.
By sunsetting this requirement and allowing our village corporations
to regain title to these lands, it will help free up lands for pressing
needs such as housing. I hear it all the time when I am out in the
villages. We were able to move that measure.
We paired it with a bill from Congresswoman Radewagen to allow
American Samoa to more easily make amendments to its territorial
constitution. I was out in American Samoa with a group of Members a
couple of months ago, and this was a priority for the Congresswoman and
for the Governor. So it is good news for them as well.
The four bills that we just moments ago passed are important as well.
We have legislation to amend ANCSA to ensure that when aged, blind, or
disabled Alaska Natives receive dividends from their settlement trusts,
they do not inadvertently become ineligible for certain Federal
assistance programs.
We have another bill that settles Cape Fox's remaining land
entitlement to remedy an injustice limiting where they can select
lands. This has been going on for more than half a century here, so
very important to the people down in the Cape Fox region.
Then we have my legislation to reauthorize the National Volcano Early
Warning and Monitoring System, to provide for critical research and
monitoring systems, upgrade existing networks, and install new
detection technology. This helps in a State like mine or a State like
Hawaii, where we have people who are living around volcanos.
We included legislation led by my colleague from Alaska Senator
Sullivan to extend the Alaskan Native Vietnam Veterans Allotment
Program for an additional 5 years. This is to ensure that eligible
individuals and their heirs can receive their rightful lands. These are
individuals who stood up, answered the call, served in Vietnam, and
during their service were unable to make their Native selections. So
remedying this has been a long cause of both mine and Senator Sullivan.
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So we recognize that this is the end of the year, and all of these
measures that have just passed all start with an S-dot, which means
they are Senate bills. They are going to go to the House. They may not
become law this year. We get that, although hope springs eternal around
this place. But I am hopeful that the House can pass potentially some
more bills by suspension. If they can't, we can revisit these in the
new year, which are absolutely not controversial, but to get them
across the finish line in this body is important. I know there are a
lot of folks in these communities that are waiting for final action on
that.
So I am pleased to be able to actually do some legislating here this
evening.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Colorado.
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